Fareed speaks with former Justice Department official John Yoo about the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA interrogation methods. Watch the full interview on GPS this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN.

Forced rectal feeding, agency officials threatening to rape the mothers of prisoners, people with broken limbs being forced to stand for hours and hours, deprived of sleep for up to one week. Doesn’t that strike you as torture?

Well, those are very troubling examples. They would not have been approved by the Justice Department – they weren't approved by the Justice Department at the time. But I have to question whether they’re true because I can’t take at face value the committee’s report because there were no Republicans involved.

You know, investigations in the intelligence committee are traditionally bipartisan and the worst thing, from a lawyer’s perspective, from my perspective, is the committee didn’t interview any witnesses. And so, you have these reports, but they never gave a chance to the very participants, the people being accused, to explain themselves. And so I would want to know more about what happened in any of these cases and to see what really happened.

But I agree with you if there were people who had to undergo what you just described, none of those were approved by the Justice Department, I don’t believe they were approved by headquarters at CIA, too.

Instead, what you had, I think, was a lot of chaos and miscommunication going on in the very first months after 9/11 when both people in the White House, the executive branch and Congress were demanding that the CIA become aggressive and get started on going after al Qaeda.

But I agree with you. If these things happened as they’re described in the report, as you describe them, those were not authorized by the Justice Department. They were not supposed to be done and those people who did those are at risk legally because they were acting outside their orders.

“I hear babies cry...... I should have watched them grow
They should’ve learnt more.....than I would’ve ever know
I see raipes galore….I see blood flow
And I say to myself INDIA should never stoop so low
HINNDDOOUS shall reap the poison they sow"

And I think to myself .....what a miserable world
And I say to myself what a miserable world....what a miserable world.

I hear ya, pilgrim. It's a gettin' pretty bad up in these darn hills too. 'Bout every other day around here some yahoo raypes his cousin. One guy got shot for his boots! And then there's the fat lazy folks who just sit around all day eating and blogging...pretending to be wise. Shoplifters and pilferers everywhere it seems.
Yup. Fairly miserable. I agree.
Happy Horse Sh/t

A 10-year-old tribal girl was raiped by at least 10 members of a hindu kangaroo court in a Birbhum village, India on Monday night as punishment for having an affair with a youth from another community. She is in critical condition after the assault and is clinging to life in spite of the raipists stopping her from reaching a hospital.

The violence in Indian-held Kashmir is the result of decades of repressive Indian policies and imposition of sham elections in the region.

We call upon India to understand that the people of Jammu and Kashmir would accept nothing short of their right to self-determination as promised to them by the UNSC and accepted by India and the international community.

Terrorism is rampant in the region in part financed by Indians. We need to revisit our relationship with India. American taxpayers will not tolerate this anymore. We need to take care of our own populace going forward. We cannot be exporting jobs to India or giving it financial or technical handouts. It has become too big to govern or create any value for western countries or even for its own population. India needs to be carved up into smaller independent states to be a viable economically and geo politically.

Perfecto, Amigo Blue Saffron. Thes people from India come to our country and smuggle to America illegally. They pollute Rio Grande just like they make dirty Ganges River. They p iss and s hit in it. They make curry that smell like donkey fart. Caramba! May the curse of Jesus be on these hindus cocheechuutas.

Torture is wrong. It demoralizes our young man and women serving our contry. It turns off future talent from joining important clandestine work. It sends bad message to other countries that look to the US as an example. We need to be more transparent this secrets don't work in the era of the Internet we are being watched by young generation that will lead our contry in no time. This report shows ugly truth of wrongdoing morally, ethically and economically. It's a shame for things like that to take place. People who see it otherwise are blind.

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